The World Travel & Tourism Council, the leading travel and tourism business organization in the world, is great at coming up with big picture numbers on the size of our industry and its growth across all regions.

With the busiest travel season upon us, business travelers hitting the road for summer meetings and events should be aware of what’s to come. Here are American Express Global Business Travel’s best-kept secrets for a stress-free travel experience.

For many destinations, the meeting planner familiarization (FAM) trip remains a sales and marketing tool that showcases their attributes beyond what other methods can match. But it is a tool that is being sharpened to fit the realities of a time-squeezed business environment that frowns on frills.

No question about it, airfares on some routes are higher than they were four or five years ago, although Airfarewatchdog airfare searchers frequently find hundreds of fares crisscrossing the country for $250 or less round-trip. And even though fares seem higher, let's not forget that, adjusted for inflation, most fares are actually lower than they were 10 or 20 years ago.

A 2012 report by Trip Advisor found that travel review websites surpassed feedback from web-based travel agencies, social media and even family and friends as the “most useful” source of information when researching and planning a trip

London & Partners, the official tourism body for the UK's most populated city, has begun the process of recruiting ambassadors to aid its efforts in securing congresses and investment from within the Greater London Authority's target sectors—most notably, from the life sciences community.

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